Your privacy matters.

About this policy

MyUKTools is owned and operated personally by Byron Williams, the individual data controller in the United Kingdom, not through a registered company. The MyUKTools Team is the public-facing maintainer name. General questions, calculator feedback and privacy enquiries can be sent to the monitored address contact@myuktools.co.uk.

This policy describes how information may be handled when you visit My UK Tools, use our calculators or interact with features available on the website.

You can use the calculators without providing contact details. If you email us, we receive your sender address, any name, message, email headers and attachments you include so that we can respond. Without a reply address or enough context, we may be unable to answer your enquiry. Please do not send identity documents or sensitive financial records in an initial email.

Calculator information

Calculator inputs are processed in your browser to produce results; the application does not submit them to a MyUKTools calculation server. Do not enter names, account numbers, National Insurance numbers or other identifying information.

A review of the calculator code and sampled browser requests found no routine collection or persistent storage of calculator inputs by the application. This is not a guarantee that third-party scripts running on the page are technically unable to read input fields or results.

Copy result writes a summary to your clipboard. Share result passes that summary to the app you select; Email result opens your email app with a prepared message. The summary includes the calculation figures and the calculator page URL, without query parameters or fragments. Save as PDF opens a browser print view, where you choose the printer or PDF destination. These actions can disclose the figures to the recipient or service you choose. MyUKTools does not need your email address to generate a result.

Like most websites, the services used to host and deliver My UK Tools may process technical information needed to operate, secure and troubleshoot the website. This can include information such as browser type, device information, IP address, request logs and error information.

Why we use information and our lawful bases

Calculator inputs processed only in your browser, which MyUKTools does not process as controller, do not need a separate Article 6 basis from MyUKTools. This does not exempt identifiable technical information used to deliver and secure the website.

The lawful bases for the processing described here are:

• Voluntary contact enquiries and feedback: legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f)), limited to responding and reasonable follow-up.
• Essential website hosting, security and troubleshooting: legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f)), limited to necessary, proportionate processing.
• Statutory privacy requests: legal obligation (Article 6(1)(c)), where an identified statutory duty applies.
• Necessary consent evidence and withdrawal records: legal obligation (Article 6(1)(c)), only to the extent supported by applicable legal duties.
• Optional Analytics: consent (Article 6(1)(a)).
• Optional advertising tracking and personalisation: consent (Article 6(1)(a)), where applicable.

A UK GDPR lawful basis does not remove separate cookie-consent requirements. The purpose and lawful basis for all pre-consent Google requests have not been established. Denied Consent Mode settings alone do not establish that those requests are exempt.

Our first-party Analytics banner offers Accept analytics and Reject analytics. All storage consent defaults to denied. We save your choice in localStorage under myuktools-analytics-consent-v2; older preferences are not reused. If storage is unavailable, Analytics remains disabled.

Use Privacy and cookie settings near the bottom of every page to change your choice or withdraw by selecting Reject analytics. Clearing site data removes the saved choice. The Google Funding Choices message remains unresolved and is not used by this Analytics interface.

Google Analytics 4 is integrated to measure page use and help improve the calculators. Its tag is loaded only after you explicitly accept Analytics in our banner or return with a saved acceptance under the current preference version. A missing, denied or unreadable decision leaves Analytics disabled; loading the consent service alone does not activate Analytics.

Google Signals and GA4 user-provided data collection are disabled in the account settings confirmed by the operator. No custom calculator-input events or User-ID are configured in the website code. These settings do not mean that all Analytics collection is disabled after permission is granted. Enhanced measurement is enabled, with Page views listed as active. Account sharing enables modelling contributions and business insights, technical support and business recommendations; sharing for Google products and services is disabled. Product links have not been fully verified.

When permission is granted, Analytics may use cookies and process page, device and interaction information. When a denial or withdrawal is received, the integration disables Analytics and updates its consent state. It does not explicitly delete existing Analytics cookies; these may remain until they expire or you clear them in your browser. Withdrawal does not delete information already sent to Google. These controls do not depend on Google Funding Choices.

Advertising

Google AdSense code is installed, including account verification and consent integration. Installation does not mean ads are approved or displayed. Auto ads, personalisation settings and any enabled additional advertising vendors have not been verified. Installation alone does not establish which advertising features or partners are active.

The AdSense bootstrap and dependent Funding Choices scripts are temporarily disabled site-wide. Previously observed pre-consent requests remain under investigation; accepting Analytics does not activate advertising. Advertising storage, user-data and personalisation consent defaults are denied. We do not treat these initial requests as Analytics permission. See how Google uses information from partner sites.

When advertising cookies are used, Google and its partners can use visits to this website and other websites to personalise advertising. You can manage Google personalised advertising through Google Ads Settings. This controls Google ad personalisation; website consent choices are managed separately through the privacy and cookie settings described above, when Google makes those controls available.

Third-party services

Netlify receives technical request information to host and deliver the website. Cloudflare Email Routing receives incoming contact emails and forwards them to the operator’s personal Gmail mailbox. Google supplies Gmail, AdSense, Funding Choices and, after a valid grant, Analytics. External sharing and email apps you choose receive the summaries you send and have their own privacy practices.

These providers operate internationally, including in the United States. Their published documents describe transfer frameworks: Netlify’s DPA includes UK transfer provisions; Cloudflare’s DPA describes SCCs with a UK Addendum; and Google’s transfer information describes adequacy mechanisms, its UK Extension to the EU–US Data Privacy Framework and contractual clauses.

Those published frameworks do not establish which terms or safeguards apply to this operator’s accounts and data flows. Applicable provider roles, transfer destinations and safeguards remain unconfirmed. Processing is not guaranteed to remain within the UK, and acceptance of particular account agreements has not been verified. Contact us for the available information and copies or details of applicable safeguards once established.

Provider information: Netlify privacy, Cloudflare privacy and Google privacy. Personal Gmail is not assumed to be covered by Google Workspace business terms.

Emails sent to contact@myuktools.co.uk are forwarded through Cloudflare Email Routing and delivered to a Gmail mailbox monitored by the operator. Your sender address, message and any attachments you choose to include pass through these services so the operator can receive and respond to your enquiry. See Cloudflare’s email-routing information. Please avoid sending sensitive records unless they are needed and an appropriate way to provide them has been agreed.

Our website may link to external websites, including official UK government information and other useful resources. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of external websites.

You should review the privacy information provided by those websites when visiting them.

Data retention

Calculator entries are held in the current page rather than an account history. Copies, emailed summaries and PDFs remain wherever you choose to save or send them. Hosting logs and consent storage have separate retention arrangements whose applicable periods or deletion criteria are not yet confirmed in this policy; contact us with questions.

Byron Williams has adopted a 12-month retention policy for routine contact correspondence, measured from the last meaningful exchange: the latest substantive message sent or received about the enquiry, including its resolution. Automated replies or acknowledgements without substantive information do not restart the period. This allows reasonable follow-up while limiting unnecessary retention of completed enquiries.

Correspondence may be retained longer where genuinely necessary for unresolved enquiries, identified legal duties, disputes or legal claims. Relevant deletion requests are considered independently of this schedule. The policy is adopted, but its deletion procedures have not been verified as operational; it is not a guarantee that every copy is deleted at 12 months.

This policy concerns correspondence controlled by the operator, including the personal Gmail mailbox. Cloudflare and Google may retain provider records for different periods. Gmail deletion normally moves messages to Trash before later permanent deletion; this does not establish when all provider-held copies are erased. See Gmail’s deletion information.

Provider logs, consent records, advertising identifiers and backups are separate from the owner’s email policy. Their site-specific durations are not verified. Netlify describes purpose- and legal-need-based retention in its privacy information; Google describes different retention and deletion processes for different data in its retention information. Neither source establishes a single expiry for this website’s records. Cloudflare routing is not a promise of zero logs or immediate erasure of all email-related data.

The operator has confirmed GA4 event data retention of 2 months and user data retention of 2 months in the account view inspected during closure. This differs from the earlier owner-reported 14-month user setting. These account controls are separate from browser cookie expiry and do not apply to standard aggregated Analytics reports. Reset on new user activity is disabled. These settings are not a promise that every record is deleted within those periods. See Google’s retention explanation.

Depending on the circumstances and applicable UK data protection law, individuals may have rights relating to personal information, including rights to request access, correction, deletion, restriction or objection in certain circumstances, and data portability where its conditions apply.

You can object to processing based on legitimate interests and withdraw consent for future optional processing. Withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of earlier processing. Portability applies to qualifying automated processing based on consent or contract; not every record is portable or subject to erasure. The calculators provide estimates, not automated decisions about your eligibility for credit, employment or other services.

Email contact@myuktools.co.uk to exercise your rights. Provide enough context to locate relevant information; proportionate identity checks may be needed. Requests will be considered under the applicable legal requirements and exceptions, independently of the routine retention schedule. You can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office without first obtaining our permission.

Security

The calculators do not require an account or submit their inputs to a MyUKTools calculation server. The Analytics integration keeps Analytics disabled unless a valid consent grant is received. These measures reduce unnecessary collection; they do not prevent every security risk or technically isolate fields from third-party page scripts. No internet service can guarantee absolute security.

Children

My UK Tools is designed as a general-purpose calculator website and is not intended to collect personal information from children through its calculator fields.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy when the website, services or applicable requirements change. The latest version will be published on this page with an updated revision date where appropriate.

Contact

For privacy questions or requests, email The MyUKTools Team at contact@myuktools.co.uk. Include enough context to locate the issue, but do not send sensitive calculator inputs or identity documents in an initial email. The website is independently operated.